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First E-4B Rolls Through San Antonio

5/21/2015

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Boeing recently completed the first depot level
maintenance of an E-4B National Airborne Operations Center aircraft at its San
Antonio, Texas, facility, the company announced.
"Boeing’s ability to return this aircraft to service, ahead of schedule,
benefits the men and women who serve on them as well as the citizens they
protect," Air Force E-4B section chief Joseph Stupic said in a May 20 company
release. Boeing overhauled both the Air Force's 747-based E-4B and VC-25 platforms
in Wichita, Kan., from 1974 until the company closed
its facility there last year. The Air Force's four NAOC aircraft are cycled
through refit every two years. Boeing
also reworks Air Force C-17 and KC-135s, as well as commercial aircraft on the
San Antonio line, according to the release.